Valya Dudycz Lupescu’s haunting, lyrical novel The Silence of Trees is well worth the usual purchase price of $4.99, but from now through May 3rd the author is offering it for free download. From Amazon: In Chicago’s Ukrainian Village, Nadya Lysenko has built her life on a foundation of secrets. When she was sixteen, Nadya … Read more
This month’s list of Kindle bargains, books all offered at $3.99 or less, is a great mix of nonfiction and novels. The Herriot classic All Things Wise and Wonderful is here at $3.99, a big savings over the usual digital list price of $14.99. If cooking is your passion, check out Fast, Fresh, and Green, … Read more
Perhaps the best way to tell you about After Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is to reprint our own Steve Windwalker’s Kindle Nation Daily review: I suspect there are a good many of our readers who like myself savored the pleasures, on the screen or on the printed page, of John Berendt’s … Read more
If you’re a fan of puzzles and brainteasers, you’ll want to try the Grabarchuk series of puzzle books. I’ve just tried my hand at Puzzlebook: 103 Puzzle Quizzes and Puzzlebook: 101 Puzzle Quizzes, and can tell you these puzzles are quick, fun and addictive. The collections include puzzles based on pattern recognition, spatial reasoning, word … Read more
Last week’s Amazon Digital Deals vote winners are in: The Instant Video winner is Project Nim, being offered at $1.99 for the rental all weekend. Tim McGraw’s Greatest Hits Volume 2 is the MP3 album winner, and it will be available for $5 through Sunday. Suburgatory is the Kindle book winner, now priced at $1.99 … Read more
Stephen King‘s Dark Tower series of novels are among his most popular, but those who’ve yet to try the epic saga may feel a bit intimidated at the prospect of diving into this series of seven novels that weave together the genres of Western, mystery, fantasy, folklore and horror in a dense story cycle. If that … Read more
It’s Thursday, and that means it’s time to vote for the Instant Video, Kindle book, MP3 album and videogame download (PC/console) you want Amazon to offer at a deep discount next weekend. This week’s contenders in video all feature Meryl Streep: The Devil Wears Prada, It’s Complicated, Mamma Mia! and A Prairie Home Companion. MP3 albums … Read more
Interactive, enhanced ebooks include animations, music, narration and more! Sandra Boynton’s The Going to Bed Book is a great one to try, as it’s rated an average of 4.5/5 stars across 10 reviews and is currently half off at $1.99. From Amazon: For any child that is reluctant to go to bed, there is the … Read more